A brief-yet-ongoing journal of all things Carmi. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll reach for your mouse to click back to Google. But you'll be intrigued. And you'll feel compelled to return following your next bowl of oatmeal. With brown sugar. And milk.

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Crack - that is obvious, it is the first thing you think of as you look at the photo.

Fingers - the crack makes me think of fingers reaching out, trying to find a way out, to grasp something, anything that will save them from the inevitable.

Support - on closer inspection of the crack, even if it succeeds in its quest to break, it will find support where it least expects it, from itself.

This is not normal for me, to think like this. This photo has given me insight into the strength of humans. We all feel the three words above, we feel ourselves crack, we reach out for something that will save us, but in the end, we find the strength from within ourselves to save ourselves.

I'm visiting you from Michele's. I am glad your name was above mine, I may never have found you otherwise.

Can't stop at three words, Carmi! When I first saw it, I thought it was the bare branch of a tree against a stormy sky. Then I read your words and realized it was a crack in a rock. Whatever made it crack must have been very, very strong.

I looked at it and thought of several very different words with the provision that this is an expanse of rock and we are looking from high in the sky.

Earthquake - the ground shakes, the rocks break and a bottomless crack in the earth's crust opens.... this plays upon my fear and why I could never live in California.... give me a tornado any day.

In a more imaginative vein.... Robert Frost... OK... that is two words or rather his poem "The Road Not Taken"....I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less travelled by,and that has made all the difference.

The third word would be "vein". Two types actually. The first references those lovely rust red lines of sediment in the rock, the minerals and crystals formed within. The second are veins as in veins of blood.... Michaelangelo's "David" carved so perfectly in marble, the branching veins standing out in relief on his arms and hands.